@D-4got10-01 i don't know if you played work time fun or not, the game is weird AF but i still kept on playing!!!

@AlgoRythm according to you response i get that you don't read the fucking manuals too

@D-4got10-01 I am just curious about the mouse you use

@AlwaysSceptical - teach your wife to turn the keyboard upside down and then lightly bump just one corner of the keyboard on the table, the amount of shit coming out just from that is amazing but also gross at the same time.

I have a boring tuna so i have a boring life and because of that i buy mechanical keyboards.

Cleaning them few times a year is the important part of their and my health too (especially the mental part of my health).

Don't get me started on keycaps, i bought like several different monocolor sets of doubleshot see-through keycaps of the same type so i can combine them as i wish.

This ties in with @JsonBoa rant about fixing printers and microwaves...

You are programmer, chatGpt is a program - use it dude, such programmity much code, succes wow...

F*ck them with a rusty shovel!

If it's 'use chatGPT or something...' than they can do it, its free. F*ckin mofos!

Sorry on profanity in previous message, this just hit my nerve with surgical precision.

Since i am programmer people like to ask me weird shit like how to do this and that on Facebook?

Well wtf do i know, I don't even use it.

Its about old phones, computers, tvs, satellite tv systems, as you mentioned, a fucking microwave, radio, vhs recorder, dvd player... Basically anything you can plug into the wall outlet or runs on batteries that wiz kid devJs can fix it! I was like a village fool, then I moved over to the city, so some younger dude took over my place.

The thing is, I always asked for manual and read it, then solved the fucking problem immediately. Its like you deal with bunch of retarded people who does not know how to read and apply basic irl logic. Like wtf i won't press that red button that has a fucking "!" sign just to see what that button does. You just read that in the fucking documentation.

Best things ever is when i ask for documentation/manual they say i don't read that shit, well fucker if you did you wouldn't need my help you illiterate fuck!

@BordedDev Thanks. You know, I was wondering about that too(ai to rewrite everything). But then i stopped. I also caught myself doing extra stuff or starting to do extra stuff then stopped and said to myself - we didn't agree on that! And then i just do what i was told to.

I already started working on a new project so this one i just need to drag over the finish line. I am putting no more effort than i need to achieve that.

@D-4got10-01 people probably left because no more money in the company, but my first gut feeling also was because founder vibe codes the app. it may be the clusterfuck but its fine, everything is fine lol

@BordedDev yup, it was love-hate relationship with next that became pure hate, i don't want to work with it anymore, pure hype, extra hoops, very opinionated in a way that it really is misaligned with pretty much any opinion that i have. I think that they could do much better with next, new remix is going the right way.

On AI - you guessed right, used by non technical person, i use AI to speed up my development but putting a lot of guard rails and calling it out constantly on a bs and halucinations, giving a lot of context etc. and it kinda works ok-ish.

@Lensflare sounds horrible but I'm finding myself in a state that I just do my job and frankly my supplies of foxes got thin through the years, so i decide that some things deserve no fox given! 🦊

When you outline the clear small step goals, it helps. Understanding the whole picture? Naaah!

You don't try to steer that shit, it doesn't have a compass! Sometimes if you have it it's not better because it doesn't understand it. You use it for very small chunks.

Chunks so small it doesn't even pay off to explain it because you will write it faster.

WTAF?

Has this been clearly communicated to the consultant. I am consultant myself and most of my clients are demanding that i use AI in some form. I do but very sparsely.

It really helps with documentation.

I wish you were my mentor when i was junior, but honestly

You guys use passwords?

I just tested for the possible genetic mutation, still waiting the results.

I might be toxic avenger (by Troma™, not the modern remake).

Jokes aside, if i have the mutation then it means that my body is unable to get rid of the toxins in some extent (options are: just 30%, just 70% or 100%), so ill maybe have to drink chelattors, aloe vera and shit.

Symptoms, however, fit perfectly to what i am experiencing for most of my life.

Like wtf man, what is going on there???

@ogier i do agree here, but to be honest using backend for frontend while you have traditional backend for manipulating the data seems like you have small go-kart inside the car so you drive go-kart to drive the car.

I get the use case for bff that next js promotes, but you probably don't need it.

I also agree that modern tooling resolved most of the issues we had in past, so i am okay with using the new shiny toys, but sometimes for some things i just ask myself why use it if we have solution that is equally competent with fewer hoops to jump through and does the job well.

I just hate the marketing hype of the next, its like saying buy this coffee because its vegan! Cool stuff, now vegans can drink coffee too, before it was made of... , oh wait, it was always vegan... But most people don't get to the last part because they have attention span smaller than they have TTL on their shiny next website.

@glowFX well i don't think it's normal to ise tank to kill the fly. For most websites astro or even 11ty is enough, why astro/11ty and not just pure html,css and js?

Well i am not a caveman and i want to make my work to be done gaster and smarter.

Most frameworks are used for web apps and that's a complete different can of worms when you compare them with websites.

But is it unnecessarily complex? It is because humans are bad at elegantly solving the problems - not in general but vast majority is, there's always that dude who is email dedicated developer that will slip table into the layout.

Too many jacks with too many trades

@JS-Guy breadboards are bread and the element kits are the butter of starting electronics hobby.

@hjk101 also this. I support your way of thinking!

We have same train of tought for somany matters!

I always default to simpson color but not to be neutral, but to be ignorant on purpose - especially on the matters that divide us as a humanity.

In reality, if you're POS you're POS regardless of you skin color, what you have between your legs or which is your position in a society.

If you're decent person. You could be an purple alligator as long as i am concerned...

@Lensflare yeah, this can be tricky, small mistake can cost you literally.

I fried my laser diode by making stupid mistake, attached to 9v battery directly to see if it can be brighter! 🤦‍♂️

It can't, now it just has faint glow.

One more tip: use glass fuses, you can get like 20 for 2 euros, it can save your board. if the circuit has to draw up to 2A and if the elements can take 2A without burning, put the 2A fuse near the power supply, any surcharge and charge flyback will burn the fuse and save your boards/elements - this might not be the best advice, i usually calculate everything before assembly so i dont use fuses much.

@gitstashio learn basic elements first and what they do. get good at soldering, buy good soldering iron/station, start with through the hole elements, SMDs can be tricky.

Find formulas for calculating different things, i dont know the formulas but i know what to google to get them. If you are good at basic math, those formulas will be easy to use.

Buy some cheap ass mcus like esp32 or pi pico and start doing some projects. There are also starter kits with small amount of different elements those are enough to get you started.

KiCad, your own pcbs etc can come later, focus on simpler things first, when you get good at those, upgrading your skills will be much easier.

Google is your friend.

Tl;dr: just build stuff, same as with programming

@jestdotty thanks on direction, i am on the end of my wits with undeleting the files.

i feel it is better to get what i can and the install the game in different folder then just merge them.

It was small korean mmo back in 2008-2010 when i was in college ( yeah i am that old), fast action tons of fun, game just disappeared over the night, they just pulled the plug. Crazy!

@jestdotty what is needed to reverse engineer the mmo server? The whole installed game with server updates, right? Just instalation file for client isn't enough to determine what server is sending and how...

Am I on the right path?

There is one game that vanished from the existence and I am undeleting my old hard drives to get the client installation folder...

I am also thinking that people are over engineering everything in the last 2 decades.

I see raspberry pi (not pico) used to run handheld gameboy emulator

Its like using the helicopter to get to the store that would take you 2 minutes of walking straight!

Too much resources to achieve something that could work with a tiny fraction of those resources.

I am into electronics so i am talking from my experience

Simple answer YES

A bit more complex answer is yes but because of money.

You push to vercel, use cloudflare, use s3, use shitton of 3rd party services that you have to pay. What you really need is a ftp and old school cpanel hosting

Ok node support needed, let go to render, flyio, heroku, whatever and pay there!

Have a docker, there is a droplet for 5$ on digital ocean.

Self hosting is 5$ a month and you can use coolify to self host pretty much anything. Show that middle finger to tech bro corpos!

@blindXfish - since my nickname is what it is lemme explain you from a point of view from someone who is in web dev since 2001.

1. NextJs is a cancer, a curse word marketed (ton of money spent on marketing) as best thing since sliced bread, in reality there are better options - i don't say that it has no use case, but like redux, you probably don't need it! At all!

2. Dockerizing a simple website is like making a car garage for your skateboard, bad analogy but you get what i want to say

3. Pin code access to add new link - weird flex, simple auth is enough, heck markdown pushed to github is enough

4. Database with 3 tables - that's weird one, unless it is SSG than database is there to store the data, i would opt for markdown instead in any case

5. Infra monitoring - sense? has none!

6. 47 libraries? Like you need 11ty or astro and maybe tailwind if you're into it, maybe, just maybe alpine and some animation library if you want to go crazy

Webdev sounds like a bad joke in 2025

@kiki nice, i recently tried low profile, much faster typing but much higher error rate so i went back to high profile.

The more i look at kick75, the cooler it is!

Kikcing that 75 high or low? Or both?

I pirate music because mp3 is on my device. Also way less than in the 90s/00s when music was expensive in my poor ass country - CDs actually costed double of today's prices.

Very often i buy physical CDs of the artist i want to support - if available, a lot of times it is also just a bandcamp purchase.

Also media from some genres aren't really available. Like where do i buy cd from obscure visual key / jRock band from 90s? Where do i buy that media online? It's available on torrents though.

Especially hard when you live in central/east Europe where even some mainstream music can't be found!